Savar, Jan 09: At least four people were killed and seven others injured as an ambulance caught fire following a gas cylinder blast at Police Town in Savar early Thursday.
Four people who were in the ambulance were burned to death after the blast around 2:30am, said Mizanur rahman, a fire fighter of Savar fire station.
Two busses also caught fire after collision with the ambulance, leaving seven people injured,he said.
The identities of the deceased could not be known yet.
The accident occurred as two passenger buses rammed into an ambulance from behind in the Fulbaria area on the Dhaka-Aricha highway.
At least seven more people were injured in the incident.
Fire Service and Civil Defence control room officer Shihab Sarker told journalists that the ambulance was hit by two buses from behind. The gas cylinder of the ambulance exploded as a result and a fire broke out, which spread to the passenger buses.
Upon receiving the news, the members of the fire service rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control after trying for two hours.
The firefighters recovered four burnt bodies and seven more injured from the spot. All the injured persons were passengers of the bus.
Before that, locals recovered several other injured.